Add Optional features why does this take so long

Hi folks
Adding optional features seems to take a huge amount of time -- especially when adding what should be simple--just a few extra fonts :

25 Mins so far to add these 2 sets of fonts !!!!! (I've herad of "Windows zzh zzh !! " but this seems rediculous.



Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Adding optional features seems to take a huge amount of time

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It's probably installing the whole language pack!!!

Edwin said:

It's probably installing the whole language pack!!!

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probably true !!!!!!! - I only wanted the fonts to display some web sites and documents properly though !!!! Some languages are "Double byte encoded characters.

Quote via Google :
Some languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, have a writing scheme that uses many different characters that cannot be represented with single-byte codes. To create coded character sets for such languages, the system uses 2 bytes to represent each character.

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jimbo






https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.3?topic=support-double-byte-character-set-fundamentals


Cheers
jimbo

Edwin said:

It's probably installing the whole language pack!!!

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You would have a point if it was just for language packs

I am not sure about it. I also added some features in the Greek language in Windows 11 (handwriting, voice etc) and took ages to complete without actually adding the Greek display language (Greek GUI). That's a separate download. Enabling features in Program and Features takes less. Probably in Settings it checks many system files to determine if they need changing after adding optional features.

Settings (or actually WU) has to take into account if Windows has been patched.

FOD packages are created only once by MS, when a new Windows release is in the earliest build stage. Afterwards, the FOD file will never change, even if Windows has. There can be later patch updates to the FOD.

In the best case, a FOD is integrated into your current image. Then DISM just needs to hard link files, update the registry, and possibly reboot.

For optional FOD's which are found mostly online (outside of the Languages & Optional Features ISO), WU has to download the feature, integrate it into your host image, and patch it. That's all before enabling that feature.

So yes, all those steps take longer than what the reported size of the Feature update leads you to think. WU has to do it right, otherwise you would be forced to re-install the last CU all over again.

Good thing we need to do it only once. Just browse through the optional features we need, enable them and that's it. Speaking of fonts, there is a good collection of Google Noto fonts that cover almost everything, even runes: